Alejandro Villanueva

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Alejandro Villanueva
Personnel
Surname Carlos Alejandro Villanueva Martínez
birthday June 4, 1908
place of birth LimaPeru
date of death April 11, 1944
Place of death LimaPeru
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1927-1943 Alianza Lima 99 (71)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1927-1937 Peru 11 0(6)
1 Only league games are given.

Carlos Alejandro Villanueva Martinez (born June 4, 1908 in Lima ; † April 11, 1944 ibid) was a Peruvian soccer player who took part in the 1930 World Cup with the national team of his home country .

Career

Club career

Alejandro Villanueva began his football career in 1927. From 1927 to the end of his career in 1943, he played for Alianza Lima , one of the most important clubs in Peru . Alejandro Villanueva, who was born in Peru's capital Lima in 1908 , won the Peruvian football championship five times with Alianza . The first title was won in Villanueva's first year with the club. In 1927 they won the championship one point ahead of Unión Buenos Aires after three games were played. The following year, more teams took part in the Primera División, this time 19 teams. Alianza was able to secure the title again, in the final the city rival and current soccer record champion of Peru, Universitario de Deportes , was defeated 3-1. After two years without winning the title, the next championship could be celebrated in 1931 when they took first place in the table before Sporting Cristal . In the two years that followed, Alianza was able to repeat the title win of 1931 and secure the national championship two more times.

National team

In the Peruvian national football team Alejandro Villanueva came to eleven missions between 1927 and 1937, in which he scored six goals. With the national team of his home country Villanueva took part in the first soccer world championship in history, that of 1930 in Uruguay. At the world championships, Villanueva was used in both Peruvian games, but could not prevent the elimination after the preliminary round after Peru lost 1-0 to Uruguay , the eventual world champions, and 3-1 to Romania . In addition to the soccer world championship, Alejandro Villanueva also took part in some continental championships in America with the Peruvian selection. Twice it succeeded in winning the bronze medal at the Copa Américas in 1927 and 1935 , each in their own country. At the end of his national team career, he also took part in the Summer Olympics in Berlin in 1936 , where Peru failed in the quarter-finals , despite the fact that they won the game, because after Peruvian spectators stormed the field after the opening goal against Austria in extra time, the opponent from the Alpine republic protested the result and FIFA ordered a repetition, to which Peru did not appear and was therefore eliminated.

After the career

Alejandro Villanueva ended his active football career in 1937. He fell ill with tuberculosis in the 1940s and died on April 11, 1944 at the age of only 35 years of complications. In 2000, the stadium of his home club Alianza Lima, the Estadio Alianza Lima , was renamed Estadio Alejandro Villanueva , based on Villanueva, who was also known in Peru during his career for the bicycle kick , which he mastered almost perfectly .

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